In Chaoyang City, the public trials in public have echoed in waves and waves in the square in front of the inner city government office.

"Thank you, General Wang..."

"Thank you, Xu, chief clerk..."

"I wish to establish the eternal life card to remember it..."

These are the calls and remarks made by the families of the parties who gathered and wandered in the prefecture government office waiting to recognize each other, and then were sent out one by one.

As the driving force behind all this, Zhou Huaian is also listening to Zuo Jin's report on the recent results of the house search and capture, as well as some things that were summoned by the clues. As for the glory and reputation of public trial of the criminal and the people, he asked the head Wang Pan to come forward to receive it at his suggestion; it was also a reward for his consistent support behind it.

From time to time, the corresponding names and places that were newly questioned were sent over with the confession, as a further screening and deciding the next step; by chance, a certain stronghold and hiding place was found and discovered, and then the news of the investigation or breaking was fed back. The former guest Shui Wanghan, who had just decided to make a meritorious service, stood by and listened and waited for any consultation.

As a famous land where poor mountains and rivers flow, in the coastal areas of Fujian to Lingnan, wealthy households went out privately to abduct people as slaves, and even robbed and killed past business trips and travelers. This is no longer a news story. In the historical records and local chronicles of later generations, some places even had records of officials colluding with large households, specializing in trafficking children and castrating them as private liberal arts, and selling them for profit;

In front of these human traffickers who are obsessed with greed and tangled, even if they look like Gao Lishi, the world's number one power official in the Kaiyuan period, who was born in his childhood, descended from the Feng family of the Lingnan giant, and also a family of officials who were born as a local county magistrate.

He was presented to the palace with King Huo as a specialty of Lingnan when he was young as a private person and was presented to him by King Huo in the palace. He began to make a fortune in Li Longji's Linzi Palace. Finally, after he was powerful all over the world, he was able to return to his ancestors with a broken body and pay his respects to his family for several generations. However, the regrets and tragedies caused by this have lasted for many years.

You should know that his great-great-grandfather Feng Ang was already a person like a local emperor who actually dominated Lingnan during the Southern Chen period. In the once popular martial arts fantasy creation "The Legend of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the prototype of the Lingnan Song family, one of the four major lords in the world. Even in later history textbooks, he was also a positive figure with Lady Xian as a positive character to promote national unity.

His descendants actually fell to this point, which shows that human traffickers in Lingnan were already rampant at that time.

Zhou Huaian always thought that this was just a joke in historical allusions, but he did not expect it to happen to him and experienced it personally. Although the government no longer exists, the wealthy families who colluded with him as accomplices remained; and he took advantage of the short-term chaos brought about by the rebel army's tug-of-war against the official army, he abducted and plundered the population for profit.

Therefore, now, the number of young children and teenagers they hoarded for castration and the number of women they had gradually been harvested from other places has reached more than a thousand people; it accounts for more than one-thirty of the permanent population of this city, involving thousands of families; and their various relatives and friends, indirectly involving more people.

Moreover, even some original wealthy or middle-aged families cannot be spared; because the quality of people and goods produced by these families is higher, they suffer more in the process, which is really full of evil and heinous crimes.

As the mastermind behind all this, the general backer is called Chao, the Three Mountains and Five Society underground in each state, and the Yu family that is always in the nine society and fifteen elements on the surface; and the Xingdonghe Huishou, who are worth a lot or formidable on the surface, are just agents or peripheral relations supported by the old-fashioned family who have been entrenched in the prefecture for many years.

It is said that their ancestors were great eunuchs and powerful eunuchs during the Qianyuan period. Yu Chaoen, who claimed that "the emperor was in ban, and all foreign affairs were paid to the old slaves", accepted one of the additional adopted sons. Later, Yu Chaoen lost power and was killed in a cesspool for the assassin. His adopted sons were also liquidated and investigated. One of them was exiled to Lingnan since then, and after several generations, he became the veritable leader of Chaoxun underground.

Therefore, as a local big tiger, this tribe not only draws benefits from various open business operations, but also controls and monopolies huge interests and ways in various underground businesses that will not be left out.

This large-scale abduction and trafficking activity that has lasted for many years, as well as the private white production behind the scenes, is one of the main items; it even exceeds the smuggling of imported goods and the distribution and trafficking of coastal private salt; it is also an important means for them to collude with the government and please the people in the court. The war and turmoil brought by the rebels south to sweep Lingnan this time also gave these underground forces various space and opportunities to make profits by taking advantage of the chaos.

In a sense, since Zhou Huaian seized and controlled Fengling Port, the largest coastal port, it inevitably had a direct corresponding conflict with the Yu family, which occupied a large part of the gray interests. The people, goods and other resources they hoarded were therefore unable to be transported out and were trapped in large quantities; so in the dark, there was a coincidence that was really unexplained and unclear.

Despite this, these underground forces found refugees among the rebels in a short time as a means of daily cover; for example, they had spies and partners in the city gates to inform the daily transfer of rebels.

Therefore, what made Zhou Huaian even more heartbroken was that some people within the rebel army were corrupt and degenerate too quickly. After he came back around the outside world, the rebel army became like this.

However, this is the scope of power for Wang Pan to deal with the aftermath. As for whether he will attack other uneasy existences or unstable factors in the army, it is not a question that Zhou Huaian needs to consider. Regardless of how complicated the ideas of those leaders would be, most ordinary soldiers are obviously very welcome to such big-name and subsequent public trial activities.
Chapter completed!